Pygmalion has been a play that gained academic discussions in various perspectives. Nevertheless, its feminist view has been the most discussed throughout the years. Having been compared to famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, the actual legend Pygmalion, Frankenstein, the readers and viewers of the play can clearly see some modified storylines. This paper will intend to depict the aspect of feminism through George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion. The original plot of the myth Pygmalion is about a sculptor (named, Pygmalion) who fell in love with a beautiful statue – his own creation. As a result of the love he had for the statue, it later on became a live woman, Galatea. Very much similar to the original myth, Shaw uses the idea of creation
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The difference is shown since the beginning where the Higgins is portrayed as an upper-class gentleman and Eliza as a girl from the lower class society. Higgins suggests that the social reformation is based upon how woman speaks; the words and sounds. George Bernard Shaw’s plays and novels are all based on his past experiences and his beliefs. The reason people argue that he was a feminist was for various reasons. One of them was because of his mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw, or better known as Bessie Shaw, was a woman with strong beliefs. While she still stayed with her family, she was devoted into music, hoping to become a concert star and not devoting herself to domestic duties. She left her husband and her first born son, Shaw, with her daughter after being offended by the irresponsibility of George Carr Shaw, the father. George Bernard Shaw has always been subjected to taunts because of his visible effeminacy; traits or tastes considered …show more content…
Shaw as a feminist, tries to prove that women are in control of their own fate, men should not control them. He proves to the audience/readers that human destiny should not be in control of the creator even though it’s his/her own. It is immoral to control other people’s fate, and it is even impossible to do so. After Higgins has made a duchess out of Eliza, he tries to control her by telling her that she would have to live with him, she refuses and runs away from him. Higgins clearly sees her as “a tower of strength: a consort battleship” (Shaw 105) and wants to keep her; Shaw shows his personal beliefs of feminism through this
The difference is shown since the beginning where the Higgins is portrayed as an upper-class gentleman and Eliza as a girl from the lower class society. Higgins suggests that the social reformation is based upon how woman speaks; the words and sounds. George Bernard Shaw’s plays and novels are all based on his past experiences and his beliefs. The reason people argue that he was a feminist was for various reasons. One of them was because of his mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw, or better known as Bessie Shaw, was a woman with strong beliefs. While she still stayed with her family, she was devoted into music, hoping to become a concert star and not devoting herself to domestic duties. She left her husband and her first born son, Shaw, with her daughter after being offended by the irresponsibility of George Carr Shaw, the father. George Bernard Shaw has always been subjected to taunts because of his visible effeminacy; traits or tastes considered …show more content…
Shaw as a feminist, tries to prove that women are in control of their own fate, men should not control them. He proves to the audience/readers that human destiny should not be in control of the creator even though it’s his/her own. It is immoral to control other people’s fate, and it is even impossible to do so. After Higgins has made a duchess out of Eliza, he tries to control her by telling her that she would have to live with him, she refuses and runs away from him. Higgins clearly sees her as “a tower of strength: a consort battleship” (Shaw 105) and wants to keep her; Shaw shows his personal beliefs of feminism through this